President Barack Obama will introduce the highly anticipated series premiere episode of COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY airing this Sunday, March 9 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on 10 Fox Networks Group Channels, including FOX and National Geographic Channel. In the video message, which leads into the premiere episode, President Obama invites a new generation to embrace the spirit of discovery and inspires viewers to explore new frontiers and imagine limitless possibilities for the future.

The series premiere episode of COSMOS will air simultaneously across multiple U.S. Fox networks, including FOX, National Geographic Channel, FX, FXX, FXM, FOX Sports 1, FOX Sports 2, Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo Mundo and FOX Life at 9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT. This first multi-network launch event for Fox Networks Group, along with the series debut on Fox International Channels and National Geographic Channels International, will make COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY available on 220 channels in 181 countries, with an overall footprint of more than half a billion homes.

Last Friday, Feb. 28, Fox Broadcasting Company (FOX) and National Geographic Channel (NGC) hosted a special preview of COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY at the White House as part of the first-ever White House Student Film Festival. The festival celebrated the Obama Administration’s commitment to using technology in the classroom. As part of the event, President Obama delivered remarks detailing progress toward his ConnectED goal of connecting 99% of students to next-generation broadband and wireless technology within five years.

Additionally, National Geographic Channel hosted 100 teachers in Washington, D.C. this week – winners of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) – for a sneak peek at COSMOS. The educators represented all 50 states, D.C. and Puerto Rico. President Obama hosted them on Monday night for a reception honoring their commitment to and excellence in education.

More than three decades after the debut of “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage,” Carl Sagan’s stunning and iconic exploration of the universe as revealed by science, Seth MacFarlane has teamed with Sagan’s original creative collaborators – writer/executive producer Ann Druyan and co-writer, astronomer Steven Soter – to conceive the 13-part series that will serve as a successor to the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning original series.

Carl Sagan’s original series “Cosmos” was first broadcast in 1980 and remains the most globally successful American public television series of all time. Seen by more than 750 million viewers, “Cosmos” has remained popular throughout the world.

As with the legendary original series, the new COSMOS is the saga of how we discovered the laws of nature and found our coordinates in space and time. The series brings to life never-before-told stories of the heroic quest for knowledge, transporting viewers to new worlds and across the universe for a vision of the cosmos on the grandest – and the smallest – scale. The series invents new modes of scientific storytelling to reveal the grandeur of the universe and re-invent celebrated elements of the original series, including the Cosmic Calendar and the Ship of the Imagination. The most profound scientific concepts are presented with stunning clarity, uniting skepticism and wonder, and weaving rigorous science with the emotional and spiritual into a transcendent experience.

COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY is produced by Cosmos Studios, the Ithaca, NY-based company Ann Druyan co-founded in 2000, and Fuzzy Door Productions, MacFarlane’s company. Druyan and Steven Soter are the series’ writers. Druyan, MacFarlane, Cosmos Studios President Mitchell Cannold and Brannon Braga (the “Star Trek” franchise, “24”) executive-produce the series. Jason Clark (“Ted,” “42”) co-executive produces. “Like” COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY on Facebook at facebook.com/COSMOSonTV. Follow the series on Twitter @COSMOSonTV and join the discussion at #cosmos.

You: just another person spouting butthurt blanket statements without facts- just because the TV told you to.

ChadWick • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Obama is the last guy that needed to introduce this. His first acts as CinC after initial election was to axe NASA to pieces and kill the Shuttle program, plus other important programs that would serve the future of America AND mankind at-large. In fact no President should have intro’d this Cosmos, except maybe an ancient JFK, if he were still around. Some of the early science discussed was just wrong – (Neil!). The bit about Night Vision Goggles letting us see the galaxy in relative darkness because of the InfraRed (errrrnk!). Night Goggles accelerate/amplify existing light, charging it on a green screen/plasma like display. Infrared never comes into the equation. Don’t get me wrong – I wanted this Cosmos to be a stunning, updated, modern version of the original (which I saw originally) – – this isn’t close… it is pandering and dumbed-down. Any one that keeps-up with Nova’s two programs and the other PBS science stuff is well ahead of this series, in the knowledge department. I wanted this to be awesome – but I found it tedious and switched to the usual OTA network drivel instead.
— ChadWick (All Apologies)

sadly there was no one of integrity honor or honesty to do the introduction.

Jimmy • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Yawn.

JaySmack • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Uh, yeah, what we needed was an ignorant inbred from Texas, who couldn’t pronounce “nook-yoo-lur” and could barely read or write, to do the intro.
Who wants a former head of the Harvard Law Review, or professor of Constitutional law to speak on issues of academics?
Geoff, thanks for reminding us all yet again why the Bush years were such a disaster, and type of individuals subjected the country to eight years of it.

Devil's Advocate • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

The BUSH Year’s were a disaster?? DUDE, not denying things got bad, but what the heck would you call THESE years?? The apocalypse??

And I’ll take a dopey President that was moderately respected globally who didn’t screw his people over a fast-talking slickster who NO ONE respects and has lied his way into a second term with a Healthcare Law that is killing several families I know personally. Well, maybe not “killing”, but adding $697 a month to an insurance premium is pretty catastrophic for some people. And yes, I said “ADD”. My friend’s family’s premium (he, wife, 3 kids) has GONE UP SIX HUNDRED AND NINETY SEVEN DOLLARS PER MONTH.)

You are an uniformed sheep being lead to the slaughter, Jay. It’d be nice if your mindless decisions at the Polls wouldn’t be taking your country with you, but hey, maybe you’re on Welfare and want the cash.

Mike Lampson • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Your remarks cracked me up. Seriously? You are actually bragging about the loser who is NOT actually running the country, playing 140 games of golf so far in his term, and on vacation and golfing now in Florida and phoning in on the Russia situation. Not to mention the full disaster Obamacare is. Even my most liberal friends are not defending Obama anymore and I live in San Francisco. Where liberals leave their hearts…

Thomas • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Why the hell would you have the most divisive president intro this show? You do know that this will cause half the country to turn it off. Specifically, the half that NEEDS to see it….

John power • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

The shows opening turned me off the first night but I watched it the next day.

If Mr. Tyson had opened with how He and Dr. Sagan first met it would’ve been perfect for me. I watched for the CGI and was alright with it.

Seeing his face, Obama’s, was unsettling.

Richard • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

as soon as I saw the egotist-in-chief, I switched off the television in disgust.

People said “but he is supporting science”. I say a cameo appearance is meaningless, the budget for publicly-funded science is the correct measure. He’d rather spend our borrowed money on food stamps for his base.

Rusty Husky • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

DITTO!

Kimberly • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

To paraphrase the late Carl Sagan, Obama is there for the billions and billions of dollars he squandered. Okay, now let’s get real. How is it the president who singlehandedly dismantled NASA get such an honor? Sounds like billions and billions of tons of manure.

Devil's Advocate • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

@Kimberly: This is what it looks like when a President owns the media. At this point, Obama could throw a sack of puppies in the river while ordering the destruction of Yellowstone National Park and the media would swoon.

geoff • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

you forgot the part after throwing the puppies pointing to them on camera saying its George bush’s fault

Course, with you guys, “one channel” is one channel too many — you want EVERY channel distorting the truth, spinning the bad and brainwashing the masses, don’t you?

There is a country in between L.A. and N.Y., Jeff. A country with values that likes to work hard and take care of themselves. A country that doesn’t make decisions based on what Lena Dunham has to say. Try to remember that. THEY certainly do.

gobnait • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Let me help you. FOX reports information that other networks, beholden to the Obama administration, do not. As a regular viewer of FOX News as well as many other websites across the political spectrum, I have never held a single reporter of host ever espouse hate against him. All they do is expose the slimy underbelly of his administration and you confuse that with hate.

JaySmack • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Let the right-wing whining begin. This is what a group of retreads do when they realize nobody is listening to them.
They spend their time just bombing into any thread on the internet and throwing around the bile.
And still nobody listens to them.

Otto Zeit • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

‘And still nobody listens to them.”
Nobody you know — that’s for sure.
But there’s a whole world out there beyond the self-obssessed circle of your proglodyte friends.; I suggest you get to know it, because it will certainly come calling on your attention next election cycle.

BTW: @The guy whose sole comment was “DITTO” ?? You are a walking pile of irony and the best part is you probably don’t even know it!!

SickOfConservatives • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

JaySmack, best comment yet.

Harry The Cat • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

An artificial president introduces a McScience program, and are we expected to believe that this program will present anything but propaganda? Given Obama’s pathological aversion to anything resembling the truth, we should probably take this program with the proverbial grain of salt.

Devil's Advocate • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

So this means the series will be full of “fact” that may or may not actually be true?

Is he going to end the intro with “Period.”??

geoff • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

hes going to start it with if u like your universe you can keep it if you like your planet you will keep that also.

Matt • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

That was perfect, Geoff. His next line would be, “If I had a son, he would look like Uranus”

uncle sam jr • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

watch and listen for a global change (i.e. global warming) plug.

Jimmy • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

And that would be bad, why?

Otto Zeit • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Because who needs a political pitch to clutter up (and distort) a scientific presentation?

David • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Because it’s nonsense.

wolfen244 • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Because it’s a hoax.

Anonymous • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Because it’s a taxpayer money-grabbing fraud.

skeptical potato • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Sigh. I see the Drudgies are out in force. Well, I think it’s cool that Cosmos is back and that the POTUS is willing to take time to help promote a rare TV series that promotes education to even the smallest degree.

WRTRPROD7 • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Education as defined by whom?

rh • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Seth McFarlane

josep • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Thank God nothing important is going on in the world that may require the president’s imput

Actually the president promoting increasing science education and scientific exploration IS one of the most important things the president can do. Do you remember the advancements made by our civilization after Kennedy’s moon challenge?

There is no war, no political fight, no election, or legislation that is more important than the advancement of science AND the people’s increased understanding of science.

Jo70 • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Promoting scientific exploration by cutting money from NASA?

FTCS • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Who would have ever thought that Obama would replace Milton Berle as “Mr. Television”?
And, yet oddly, in their day…both were/are America’s number one clown.

Looking forward to seeing COSMOS…presidential company excluded.

Jimmy • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Good Lord! These commenters act as the Free World will come crashing down just because the president is introducing a science series geared toward children.

miltontwins • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

No. Just a president they don’t like. If President Romney had done the exact same thing, they wouldn’t complain.

Flashdealer • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

I would complain. He has more important things he should be doing. This stuff can wait until after his 2nd term is up.

Greg • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

The problem is that Obama (and his wife) are ever present. You cannot get away fromm them. Why does Cosmos need his introduction? The guy truly does think he’s The Messiah.

SickOfConservatives • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

“Greg,” they are “ever present” because they are the President and First Lady. And get ready for the return of the Clintons in 2016, they will also be “ever present.”

Nice to see so many people finally waking up. The whole integrity of the show is gone. You can’t dump on Fox for all your shortcomings , then front a show for them. Hilarious. The Shroom King’s at it again.

jaydog • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

I don’t know what a drudgie is but im sick of the president trying to monopolize everything non politic. I also tend to agree with the other posters about his horrible mismanagment of our nation. Besides isn’t he on vacation right now, I mean really, Russia is invading, mean while our president plays more golf on my dime. People are sick of his crap.

PatriotUS • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Please Stop.

Human beings need to exercise. Even presidents. And presidential staff work with presidents in whatever cities they have traveled to.

The economy has recovered since its near collapse under Bush, the auto industry is thriving, the stock market is near or at all time highs, dangerous terrorists are dead (including Osama Bin Laden,) and Mexican drug lord (“Public Enemy #1″) was arrested with US help – more of that, please!

JACK NICHOLS • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Our economy has recovered since its near collapse? Please explain why so many retailers are closing their stores across the nation, more people are now unemployed than during the recession of 08, the stock market is unstable and its predicted we will have a huge correction in the near future. The USDX is below 80, people are buying guns at an accelerated rate, Precious metals are in huge demand, etc.etc. This president has caused more racism than any president in recent history as well as maintaining acceptance numbers that are in the toilet. If you think things are better now than when Bush or BuBa was in office then you are delusional this president is a disaster still unfolding. President Obama is a abject failure and those that support him and his propaganda are living under a rock. So what he is promoting some science fiction TV series is a joke. Is he the POTUS or a washed out TV actor that needs attention.

anthony • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

The economy is thriving, and the auto industry is thriving. Where do you get your facts from? Oh that is right liberal imagination land where Obama can do no wrong, and yet there is record joblessness that exceeds even the great depression when they count the people who have dropped out of the workforce, oh yeah Obama only counts you so long as you can receive unemployment, after that expires. You are no longer counted as part of the American workforce, pretty neat trick huh? Keeps liberals like you in the dark, when your own eyes are telling you what I am saying is true. But in liberal land everything conservative and Christian is evil, and racist, and Obama is god emperor of all mankind and he killed a man that was on Kidney dialysis back in 2002, fact you can only live max maybe 3 years on kidney dialysis. Osama’s disease was incurable by transplant as it was related to Hodgkins disease. So yeah keep believing that dummy they shot was Osama, and oh yeah that Muslim funerals involve burial at sea. Fact no Muslim funeral in any country involves burial at sea.

zj sky • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Millions of Americans have dropped out of the workforce, millions more are on welfare and disability and food stamps and Social Security, Russia is invading countries, millions of Americans have lost their health insurance due to Obamacare, over $7 trillion has been added to the national debt, inflation is up, cost of gas is up, cost of food staples like corn and eggs and milk is up, etc.

You cherry picked four decent accomplishments so I wanted to make sure you were aware of how much a miserable failure Obama has been. Bush was a bad president in many ways but Obama makes him look like a piker. But hey, Bin Laden died (no evidence of a body to show the public) so all is good.

Yes but the president introducing a space science series – particularly at this awkward and unsettling geopolitical juncture – exhibits absolutely bewildering yet typical judgment.

That picture looks like the eyeball at the end of “Vanilla Sky.”

I hope this show of the president’s doesn’t get impeached! This complete absence of priorities is probably the root cause of why Washington is always paralyzed and at a perpetual impasse. How can anything possibly get done?

It seems to me the most liberal of liberals has to confront this reality and prepare to concede this point.

Surely there’s a scientist spiritual heir to Obama who’s more appropriate. First he posited himself as America’s Physician. Now he’s Copernicus. Does this guy’s narcissism know no bounds?

Love Seth though and I’m looking forward to his series.

JaySmack • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

At least Obama can spell “Cosmos.” Bush couldn’t find the moon with a telescope on a clear night.
Great to see a president who actually sounds like he made it out of third grade.
Shame that his critics haven’t.

Youschmuck • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Are you sure? He can spell Cosmos, but he spells it Kosmos…I mean, he couldn’t spell “Rspect”…to honor Aretha Franklin! He can’t get no Respect!

Greg • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

If you only defense of Obama is to slam Bush, you must have a small…brain.

Bumbling Barry Oblamer • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

57 states? RSPECT? Corpse man? Speak Austrian?

Barry is a GENIUS!

Blah blah blah • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Seriously? Well, I just removed the “record series” option on my DVR…I don’t want politics getting in the way of family entertainment. The show lost me before it started. Sad.

miltontwins • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Drudgebots out in full force. LOL.

zj sky • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

I’ll take the mantle of drudge bot over “obamabot” every day of the week. Friendly tip – try reading Drudge instead of parroting ignorant comments from your “progressive” friends dingus

DB • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

“If you like your universe, you get to keep your universe. “

JaySmack • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Better than a goofball who thought his ranch in Crawford WAS his universe.

P.D.Q. • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

What the hell is that WORM-THING in the promos???!!!

geoff • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

its Obama
no that’s not right Obama is a snake not a worm sorry

Kevin V Russell • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Any other way I can see it in Australia apart from breaking the law – which I would never do by the way?

granada • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Interesting that no one is pointing out the irony of Obama appearing on all of Fox’s outlets concurrently. Even Roger Ailes sees this as above political rhetoric.

Since the dawn of television (and on radio before that), every president has done something similar. Promoting interest in the sciences is apolitical. Had Cosmos been rebooted 6 years ago, 43 would have done the same thing.

Cosmos is not a political show and the comments that fault the President for introducing it have no place on Deadline.

Snowden White • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Fox News and Fox Entertainment are separate entities. Don’t drag Roger Ailes good name through the mud.

“Had Cosmos been rebooted 6 years ago, 43 would have done the same thing.”

Except that it “booted” in ’80 and Carter, properly, didn’t make an intro.

Obama, the man who turned NASA’s mission from exploration to diversity, who has us bumming rides from Russians, has no place even watching a show on science, let alone introducing it.

Snowden White • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

If you are disgusted by President Obama and his administration I suggest you simply boycott the broadcast altogether. He squandered billions of dollars over the last six years and all but shuttered NASA at the start of his presidency ..remember the Muslim outreach b.s? And the media still thinks they can create another “Camelot” in the sixth year of his failed presidency. It’s yet another indication that Hollywood is bereft of new ideas. I remember the original series fondly but will skip this politicized claptrap.

Instead, I will spend my time in support of candidates that will nullify President Obama in both the senate and house in the coming mid-term elections. This man’s “reign” has been a disaster and it would be a joyous thing to see the congress investigate the subversion of our laws committed during his tenure.

Obama’s presidency is America’s big mistake—we all know it—and yet the media continues to spread the false notion of his intelligence and leadership. And you wonder why nearly everyone has switched to watching Fox News? It’s not the fault of Republicans for the complete and utter failure of the past six years. That responsibility lies with Barack Obama, democrats and the so-called “progressives.” If you are black and this truth bothers you, I really don’t give a damn. I’m only sorry that most of you chased a phony notion of “hope and change” and helped pick the wrong guy to be the first African American president. There are far more accomplished men of color that should have and could have been elected in that role.

JACK NICHOLS • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Very good comment, very well articulated, jolly good show. Obama is the 4th stooge that we all laugh at.

Hunter • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Turn off Fox News buddy. Your brainwashed…

zj sky • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

or try watching it once in a while as opposed to making assumptions about something you obviously have never watched or experienced.

Hunter • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

Romney commenting on an intellectual science show!?? Wouldn’t happen ever. His answer to everything is goddddddddddddd did it hahaha.

Gary M • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

OK enough, children, lets try to enjoy good tv without the petty politics. Both Presidents introduced wasteful health legislation (senior drug care, obamacare), fired drones at innocents, bent over for Wall Street, and got schooled by Putin (Georgia, Ukraine). Just watch the show and be glad it will all be over in 5 billion years.

george • on Mar 8, 2014 11:00 am

This show is a sorry waste of time !!!! Shame on you trying to equate this to the Cosmos of Carl Sagan. Is this aimed for children only??? If so the children of today will find this boring. Overdone with distracting animation. There are vast leaping to assumptions How do you know that the civilizations that existed before the dark ages didn’t know more such as the Incas.